2 Ingredient Cookies

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Alright, I admit it: This morning I woke up and realized I didn’t have a pin test planned and I really didn’t feel like going to the grocery store, so I went through my boards until I found something I could make with only the ingredients I had on hand.

Good thing I had a brown banana and an almost-empty thing of oatmeal or I wouldn’t have been able to make 2-ingredient cookies.

Normally, this would not constitute “food,” and I would be forced to make a Taco Bell trip for lunch. But if Pinterest says you can make food out of it, who am I to question?

Also, I didn’t have anything delicious to mix in. The chocolate chips and Rolos are long gone, compadres. (I was on my period. Shit happens.) But I did manage to dig a box of yogurt raisins out of my purse from when I took my nieces to the museum last week and needed emergency snacking supplies.

(The Auntie of the Year Award goes to me because I took them out for gelato instead of making them eat yogurt raisins.)

Does not in any way resemble cookie dough:

Still doesn’t, even mooshed and with yogurt raisins in it. (I don’t know why I thought that would help.)

I admit, here, to straying from the directions. Spraying the cookie sheet is an important step, guys. Don’t skip it. But I skipped it because I was using this awesome stoneware cookie sheet that I love and nothing ever sticks to the damn thing. It’s magical.

I was still not confident in how these would turn out, as they sort of looked like piles of cat puke.

They didn’t look all that much better when they came out of the oven.

Maybe slightly older piles of cat puke.

Also? They stuck to my fucking cookie sheet even though it’s magical and nothing ever sticks to it. Fine, cookies. You win. You will stick to anything.

I managed to pry them off the cookie sheet with only minimal damage, except for losing most of the yogurt raisins out of them.

And they tasted about like you’d expect: bananas, oatmeal, and yogurt raisins smooshed together and slightly dried out. Not like a cookie. More like bananas. And oatmeal.

I do admit to eating all of them because I was hungry and still too lazy to go to Taco Bell. And, on the plus side, eating all of the cookies only means that I ate a banana and half a cup of oatmeal, plus some stray yogurt raisins, so I don’t have to run a penitent mile or two later (ha, like I would anyway).

I made these a few days ago. I thought I could con my 4 year old into eating them because I added chocolate chips. He thought they were gross (probably because they do not contain a trans fat). I however thought they were ok. If I have 6 brown bananas again (I went a little nuts at Costco a week ago) I would make them. They are the perfect slacker breakfast.

Gotta make ’em with quick oats yo. I make these for my toddler, but I add cinnamon (& sometimes ginger). That way I can say “want a cookie?” Then laugh evilly to myself as I give her an obnoxiously healthy treat disguised as junk food. Mwahaha & such!

It really bugs me that they call these two ingredient cookies. If I’m required to put in cinnamon, chocolate chips, yogurt covered raisins (WTF you would do that is beyond me) then clearly these are NOT two ingredient cookies.

I made these last month. For some reason, because they’re called cookies, I expected them to taste like cookies, even though after seeing the ingredients that went into them, I knew they would taste like oatmeal and bananas. Same with the pancakes that are made of basically the same thing.

You’re totally right on this – super glad it wasn’t just me! I made these when I was having a total “I NEED A PASTRY SO HELP ME GOD!” moment and they tasted like oatey bananas. I even added in some maple syrup and some white chocolate chips that I found in my cupboard …. not going to make these again.

when i made these I used less oatmeal and added chocolate chips. I have to say they were okay as long as they were still warm from the oven. Once they cooled off though, nasty crap. Since I can’t eat anything good anymore anyway I will more than likely make them again. I agree with your statement. They taste “healthy.”

For what it’s worth (which is approximately nothing…), yours look better than the original to me. I mean, healthy tasting isn’t really a win, but at least they *look* yummier. They look hard as bricks in the original pin, like they’d put a dent in my wall if I threw one.

ALSO ALSO? They stuck to your magical pan because there is NO. FAT. NO FAT! Fat, a) makes everything taste absolutely delicious, and b) keeps things like cookies from sticking to baking sheets. That’s why when one makes regular chocolate chip cookies with 2 sticks of butter, one does not need to grease the baking sheet. FAT, FTW!

(check me out… i’ve gone from silently stalking to commenting THREE TIMES in the span of five minutes on the same post. I need to get up and do something with my life)

I actually like these. Mine are “four ingredient” cookies… quick oats, bananas, cinnamon, and dark chocolate chip morsels. must spray the cookie sheet with Pam! 😉 They seem “unusual” the first time because they aren’t what you expect for a “cookie” but I was determined to find something healthier than a Little Debbie. Works for me.

I actually am in love with these cookies! I add in chocolate chips, peanut butter, and nutella. I don’t know if I am just desperate because I am living abroad and don’t have access to butter. But they’re actually pretty great.

How much peanut butter did you put in? I’ve tried making these before and they tasted okay (kinda like banana bread), but the texture was gross… I felt like I was eating rubber. I might make them again if I can find something that’ll change up the texture so it feels like I’m eating food and not bouncy balls.

I made these with chocolate chips a couple weeks ago. I told my kids I was making them cookies for breakfast. My three year old was overjoyed. Then I gave him one. He looked right at me and said, “Mom. These are NOT cookies!”
He was rightly pissed. They taste like gelatinous oatmeal. And he eats a LOT of healthy (as in whole foods) food.

Honey, I am just going to let you know now, going around and telling people to shut up and what not makes you look like you are a 12 year old on the playground, sticking their tongue out at people who don’t agree with them. Unless you are 12 years old, then, carry on.

These are supposed to be “2 Ingredient HORSE Cookies”. Your mix-ins should have been apples and/or carrots, and they should have been fed to your nearest barnyard pal. It’s the only explanation for the lack of anything tasty in them, right?

These posts crack me up, you have to get creative with other healthy ingredients to make it taste that much better, like maybe some pecans and cinnamon? or healthy PB(not skippy or peter pan) I clearly have stumbled onto the out of shape or “type 2 diabetics in the making” page. Yea they don’t look great but there are ways to make them taste good without going overkill, the whole reason someone came up with this was so it was open to interpretation with add ins. If you want to throw 2 sticks of butter in go ahead, just don’t bitch when your flying around in a high powered wheel chair and have 5 prescriptions in 10 years from eating like that all the time. winning